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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Check Out This Event!

If you live in Los Angeles, and are a veritable-vintage-veteran check out the Vintage Fashion Expo! I will be going for sure!

Santa Monica's Civic Auditorium hosts the increasingly popular Vintage Fashion Expo, now held three times every year.
Around 75 dealers display clothes that range from Victorian dress through the Roaring Twenties and the bell-bottomed Seventies and right up to modern-day retro styles. The show features many international designers, including Halston, Dior, Issey Miyake and Azzedine Alaia, and as a result is frequented by representatives from the fashion industry looking for inspiration for today's designs.

The expo also attracts costume and set designers, and the occasional celebrity. Although there are some men's clothes on offer, the fashion is mainly female.

When: May 12-13 2007
Where: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Cost: $10 / Sat. early buying session $20
Hours: 10.30am-6pm; Sun 11am-5pm; Sat. early buying session 9am-10.30am
http://www.vintageexpo.com/

Labels: check out this event, los angeles, vintage

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Be Scene

Kate Bosworth at the 2007 Food Bank of New York, Can-Do Awards dinner Monday night.

This dress is **stunning** on her, and her hair and make-up complement the overall look perfectly. I love love LOVE the neck of this dress! And the length is elegant and flatters her legs. She looks amazing!

Labels: be scene, celebrities, new york

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Well the neck DOES look convenient I guess. If she gets hot, she can just use it as one of those hand-held fans. GO KATE!

By Alex, at May 7, 2007 1:36 AM

This Just In... Stores

Singer Lilly Allen is coming out with a clothing line called Lilly Loves. The line will be sold in a store called New Look, with locations pretty much everywhere except here.

If the clothes are anything like what she usually wears: vintage inspired dresses, ghetto gold chains... well then maybe this could be for this New Look store what I thought Madonna would be for H&M. I really expected more from Madonna. I can't wait to see what the clothes look like!

Labels: celebrities, lilly loves, this just in... stores, vintage

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Image Conscious

Interesting.

Labels: image conscious, miu miu

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Sunday, April 22, 2007

The Dress Code ( of Ethics )

I'm interested in hearing what you all think about this article.
Check it out and then do the poll!

Labels: armani, dolce and gabanna, ferragamo, polls, the dress code ( of ethics )

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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Be Scene

Spotted this afternoon at a horse rental place on Magnolia and Riverside by the Los Angeles Equestrian Center:

Rose McGowan!

I have always been a fan of hers, since I first saw her in The Doom Generation in 1995. Since then, I've followed her all the way to the outrageous Grindhouse, where she played "Cherry". So to see her there as my friends and I were filling out paperwork and waiting for our horses to be ready, was an unexpected moment of excitement in my day. She looked absolutely beautiful with very minimal makeup, wearing jeans and a denim jacket. Very inconspicous. My friend turned around and mouthed "Isn't that...", and I mouthed "Rose McGowan! OHMYGOD!", and practically swooned. Only in Los Angeles can you spot such a lovely starlet when you go riding... and not have the place be in an uproar.

What's so great about Rose McGowan is her edge. There is something incredibly punk rock about this woman, while coming off as a modern day Vargas girl.

Rose has a film in pre-production called "Black Oasis", set to be released sometime in 2008.

Labels: be scene, celebrities, los angeles

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i once sat & had dinner w/ her, Marilyn Manson, & Vincent Gallo @ Benihana on La Cienega...she was very pretty in person, yes, and had an amazing porcelain complexion and lips that were sexy as hell (as for her clothes, she was wearing a very pretty 40's-style print dress and heels...VERY pin-up), but you still could see she was kinda looney and sounded as such...i mean, the girl DID get busted a year or so ago for being brazen enough to be doing coke while ON THE DANCEFLOOR at LAX...but on looks alone, the woman is totally hot...hey, who did you go see GRINDHOUSE with? ;-)

By todd / thh70, at April 23, 2007 5:21 AM

Fashion Week Los Angeles: Fall 2007

My favorites from the runway:

Voom by Joy Han

Imitation of Christ

Alvin Valley

Grail

Rami Kashou

Monarchy Collection

Samora

Labels: alvin valley, grail, haute on the runway, imitation of christ, monarchy collection, rami kashou, samora, voom by joy han

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loving the Alvin Valley...almost reminds me of Miu Miu...?

By todd / thh70, at April 23, 2007 5:24 AM

I love voom by joy han. Always the best!

By Anonymous, at November 2, 2007 10:44 PM

Friday, April 20, 2007

Today's Look

Christian Audigier "Cash" Tee (half tucked in), Marc Jacobs navy blue hoodie with black scribbles, Sass & Bide grey tapered jeans, tucked into Miss Sixty motorcycle boots. Rhinestone studded belt, and leather wrist cuff...

Looking fierce: PRICELESS!

Labels: christian audigier, marc jacobs, miss sixty, sass and bide, today's look

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Be Scene

Spotted at the Los Angeles Textile Show at the New Mart in the Fashion District, Downtown this Tuesday:

Jeffrey Sebelia, winner of Project Runway!

I was very excited to see him there, as I perused fabrics and trims... He was a favorite of mine all season, and I feel his win was justified! His look was a little bit raunchy, a little bit rock and roll... but also classy in a young, hip, kind of jet-setting way.

A few of my favorite pieces from his line:

Check out the website for his line Cosa Nostra!

Labels: be scene, los angeles, project runway

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Myspace Disgrace

" Do you prefer 'fashion victim', or 'ensembly challenged?' " ~Clueless
When is this EVER okay? *sigh* Honey, the shirt goes OVER the bra. Not that you should be wearing that kind of bra with a strapless top, anyway. But say you do... the shades of pink in the bra and the tie clash with each other. The boy shorts over the jeans with the top tucked in? Someone please... if you know this girl, save her from herself. And save her clothes from HER!

Labels: fashion quotes, myspace disgrace

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By todd / thh70, at April 23, 2007 5:25 AM

Oh my.... this is horrific!!!

By Joanna, at April 26, 2007 10:03 AM

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Featured Fashionista: Chloe Sevigny

Chloe Sevigny:

She has definitely come a long way since I first saw her in KIDS as a troubled young girl with AIDS. Now on the HBO series BIG LOVE ( second season premiers June 17, 2007 ), it is clear her career has flourished over the years. Another consistant evolution has been in her unique and under-the-radar sense of style. She somehow always manages to create a look that is just slightly hipper than the pulse of what is going on in the fashion scene she relishes in. I have more than once asked myself, who is inspiring who? Are the designers inspiring her looks? Or is she inspiring theirs? Whether she is choosing it well, or wearing it well, it matters not. Her true BIG LOVE for fashion, shows. It seems she has remained humble in her success, still favoring that special vintage find: "I still prefer to buy vintage over spending it all on one designer," she expressed to the Times. "My mother encourages me to spend a little," she said. "It still feels weird. Even now I never live beyond my means. I've never been that girl. I mean, I have a Christian Dior mink poncho. But I didn't buy it." Mixing vintage pieces with modern couture is the perfect marriage of style and iconography.

Labels: celebrities, christian dior, featured fashionista, vintage

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From A Pile Of Stuff

"This... stuff'? Oh... ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blindly unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff."

~The Devil Wears Prada

Labels: fashion quotes, oscar de la renta, yves st laurent

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